Amber Eve Anderson is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and administrator. She is currently a fellow at Hamiltonian Artists in Washington, DC and lives in Baltimore where she serves on the Advisory Board of the Institute of Contemporary Art. She has been an Arts Writer at BmoreArt and founded Ctrl+P, a publishing project dedicated to preserving ephemeral interventions in the digital realm.
Adam Davies is an award-winning photographer whose large-format film photography explores architecture, social systems, and public spaces. Said David Tomkins, Writer/Editor of The Chinati Foundation, Marfa: ‘There’s an enigmatic quality to Davies’ images, and to the places they depict. The pictures bear a trace of something a bit uncanny, because the places they depict are quietly but insistently someplace else-or at least the threshold to someplace else . . . maybe a little magical, maybe a little cursed’.
Emily Carter is a professional nature and wildlife photographer that believes that art is found in nature through careful observation of the scenery, lighting and the subject. Through photography, she captures the emotion felt when experiencing a fleeting moment. These images allow Emily to share the connections made with nature with others who perhaps may not have the opportunity to experience it themselves.
As an award winning and published digital artist, her work has been included in local newspapers, magazines, books and smart device apps.
Jennifer N. Shannon has written and self-published a novel titled Silent Teardrops and two collections of poems, short stories and visual art, for the LOVE…Vol. 1 & 2. Her poetry, short stories, photography and an essay have been in exhibits, published in an anthology and featured in literary magazines such as Deep South, The Auburn Avenue and North Dakota Quarterly.
Kimberly, a Delaware native and nature girl at heart, is a published amateur photographer and writer. She is self-taught and spends her free time nurturing her passion for wildlife and nature through photography, writing, and creating her own natural body care.
Lesley Riley never intended to be a full-time, professional artist. She just followed her passion in the small blocks of time she carved out while raising six children. Now, as an internationally known instructor and multi-media artist, Lesley works in botanical printing, mixed and digital media, paint and of course, fabric. In 1999 she turned her initial passion for fabric, photos, color and the written word into a dream occupassion that continues to delight and inspire creatives and art lovers everywhere.
Krista Schlyer is an artist living Mount Rainier, Maryland. Her
focus is long-term projects exploring landscape level ecological and human social relationships. Her subjects have included the US-Mexico borderlands, the Anacostia River watershed, the longleaf pine ecosystem and the Caribbean Sea. Schlyer’s work has been published by the BBC, Orion, The Nature Conservancy, High Country News, Newsweek and others. She is the author of
three books including Continental Divide: Wildlife, People and the Border Wall, winner of the
Working at the intersection of art, culture, and politics, Ann Stoddard is an interdisciplinary artist who explores underlying connections across media, including video, installation, electronics, animation, sculpture, site-work, as well as painting, drawing, photography, and printmaking. Ann Stoddard makes art that explores space- the space around and between us, the biosphere, the noisy public space of political debate, and the cultural landscape in which art can reveal connections and challenge divisions.
Meredith S. K. Boas (formerly Meredith S. Keating) is a life-long artist and arts advocate who comes from a long line of artists and entreprenuers. She has studied many artistic mediums, and has a bachelor's degree in Integrated Arts and four associate degrees in the disciplines of photography, graphic design and multimedia, video production, and visual communications.
Dereck Stafford Mangus is a Baltimore-based artist and writer. He currently works at the Baltimore Museum of Art, where he is regularly inspired by the permanent collections and special exhibitions. His review, “Jack Whitten, ‘Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963–2017,’” was selected as the winner of the Frieze Writer’s Prize in 2018. Mangus finds inspiration in the built environment, which informs his artwork and writing.